The recent front-cover article in the newly published NewScientist discusses enhanced humans...
'People with enhanced senses, superhuman bodies and sharpened minds are already walking among us. Are you ready for your upgrade?
They're here and walking among us: people with technologically enhanced senses, superhuman bodies and artificially sharpened minds. The first humans to reach a happy, healthy 150th birthday may already have been born. And that's just the start of it. Are you ready for your upgrade, asks Graham Lawton
IT IS 2050, and Peter Schwartz is deciding what to do with the rest of his life. He has already had two successful careers and he wants another one before he dies, which he expects to happen in around 50 years. By then he'll be about 150, which isn't bad for a baby boomer, but he expects his son, now 60, to live a lot longer than that.
The world that Schwartz lives in is radically different from the one he grew up in.'
Shame that the site requires subscription - or you could read it at a local library or whilst standing in the shop browsing...!
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